oh, and for posterity:

george: your hair is strong like a rope
yanjing: it's stronger than my heart

you have to understand how small, abrupt, and chinese yanjing is to laugh at this. cause it's like a POEM!

TIMING.

this budget is a moral document

so get ready for a really good analogy....

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this weekend was reminiscent of the mystery novels i used to read as a child-- you get to the end, prepared to be shocked, are sort of shocked but not really when you go back and realize that everything leading up to it was so obvious, you really should have seen it all along. i'm submitting THAT to the honors journal.